Chapter 737: A Deliberately Arranged Show
At the same time that Yue Shao'an began to attack Dali City, the soldiers and horses of Dali and Dasong also marched towards Song Shicheng at a rapid pace. The three parties seem to have a tacit understanding, and they all choose to win quickly.
Wen Chengfang sent various squads according to Yue Shao'an's arrangement, with the purpose of harassing the enemy army and obstructing their marching route. This purpose was not easy to implement, because the Song division city was not enough troops, and the people sent out naturally could not be too many, responsible for the emptiness of the city, if the enemy army sent a surprise army to attack the city, it would be more than worth the loss. Although the intelligence network of the Supervision Department has developed extremely well, in this era when the intelligence department does not attach great importance to it, Yue Shaoan is far ahead in this area, but there are loopholes in everything, and the Supervision Department can not find out everything. Yue Shaoan entrusted such a heavy task to him, and Wen Chengfang dared to have the slightest carelessness.
However, this seemingly extremely difficult task, with the help of Zhu Chongyi, is not as difficult as imagined. The key lies in the boxes that are delivered before departure.
These things are not unfamiliar in modern times, and at this time, there is no doubt that these things are the products of ghosts, and these things are landmines. Of course, at this time, the office set up by Yue Shao'an for Comrade Zhu Chongyi was far from being able to produce the extremely lethal mines of modern times, and these were only made of special gunpowder and broken iron nails and other materials and then wrapped in an iron skin. When it is blown open, sometimes the outer skin can only be blown in half at most, and the iron nails inside fly out, unless they hit the vital point, the responsibility will not hurt people's lives at all.
However, it was these things that stopped the progress of the Dali army. Speaking of which, Wen Chengfang still has a set of personnel, and under his arrangement, a total of four teams of men and horses, each team of 1,500 people, these people are good at ambush warfare, and each team has 500 light horsemen.
The four men and horses reached the place they defended, and all set up minefields on the path that the enemy army must pass. Waiting for the enemy to come, the first to be unlucky was the Dali army. Here is a county seat under the jurisdiction of Song Shicheng, this county is located between the mountains, the land is not fertile, so the population is sparse, the road is also extremely difficult, but at the foot of the mountain there is a road straight to Song Shicheng, although it is the avenue here is also ups and downs are not good to walk, especially when the grain cart walks more difficult, however, the Dali army is now seeking a fast word, so the road is the nearest road to Song Shicheng, so it still comes along this road.
However, when the Dali army arrived, seeing that the terrain was dangerous, he couldn't help but be a little more careful, and sent a scout horse to investigate but never returned, Guo Hongying hesitated for a while, or decided to move forward with the army, the vanguard pair was stunned after stepping into the minefield, I don't know what this thing is, watching my companions blood every step they take.
Especially this thing is blown up from the bottom up, the generals who are in front are okay, there are war horses to cover, and the ordinary soldiers are miserable, although they will not die, but the birds in the crotch are not a few, and those who step on it, the soles of the feet must be the most damaged, and there are almost no people who can walk.
The soldiers turned around and fled one after another, and the light cavalry of Song Shicheng then attacked from the ambush site, and the Dali army suffered heavy losses, but when they fled to the position of the Chinese army, the people of Song Shicheng hid again.
After doing so several times, he had to change his route, but he still chose the shortcut, and Fu Jun of Song Shicheng relied on the gourd to draw a scoop, and he still did it as old as before.
After suffering several losses in a row, Guo Hongying finally understood the purpose of Song Shicheng's army, they did not attack their main force, but always set up difficult checkpoints in front of them to delay time. Moreover, the routine is the same every time, but he has no way to crack it, this is a trick that Yue Shaoan rarely uses.
The reason why Yangmou is called Yangmou is that he knows that it is a plan but is helpless, Yue Shao'an has used a lot of war plots in his life, and occasionally Yangmou has also achieved miraculous results. Guo Hongying finally compromised, the only feasible thing for him now is the official road, these places are flat, and there are people with them, and Song Shijun will not dare to set up those damn things in these places no matter how much he has the means. Besides, even if they set it up, it would not hurt, and on flat land, it could be used as a road at the beginning. Even if Guo Hongying didn't know what those things were, he could judge that these things definitely didn't fall from the sky, they must have been developed by Yue Shao'an, and the weapons were all expensive things, and the swords, guns, swords, and halberds used by the soldiers on weekdays cost a lot of gold and silver, and these things must not be cheap, and it was impossible for Song Shicheng to arrange them in the fields on a large scale.
His judgment this time was undoubtedly correct, walking on the avenue, he really didn't encounter an ambush again, and he didn't even find out a soldier from Song Shicheng, Yue Shaoan should have no other tricks available, and he could only be greeted by a decisive battle under Song Shicheng, Guo Hongying finally felt a handful of eyebrows raised after many days of disgrace. It was as if he had won in this secret encounter.
The Dali army was advancing rapidly towards Song Shicheng. On the other hand, the Song army, which was many days later than Dali's troops, was also desperately rushing to the road, all because of one person, that is, Wu Qimeng, who was in charge of grain and grass at the beginning. When this person was demoted to a civilian by Yue Shao'an, Yue Shao'an saw that he was dissatisfied, because the mastermind of this matter was clearly Gu Zhang, and Yue Shao'an was not too harsh on Gu Zhang, although Gu Zhang finally abdicated, but he also took the initiative on the grounds that he was old and frail and did not handle official affairs well.
It's like being the same criminal, but one is the mastermind but has nothing to do, and in the end he got a retirement, not to mention the salary, and got a bunch of awards for outstanding cadres, although he has no rights, but his reputation and silver are not a lot. The other accomplice was sentenced, although he did not lose his head and did not have to go to prison, but it was similar to a suspended sentence, although he did not sit in prison, but he also restricted his personal freedom, and he could only stay in one place.
This made Wu Qimeng's heart greatly unbalanced. Therefore, if he was still loyal to Yue Shao'an before, just because of political discord, then now he completely hates Yue Shao'an, but he has no ability to retaliate.
Originally, Yue Shaoan left him because his son Wuhan Ran was a talent, but he was also loyal, Yue Shaoan wanted to use it, and it was not good to cut down people's Lao Tzu. Second, it is planned to be of other use when the Dali dog jumps over the wall in a hurry. But an accident broke Yue Shao'an's plan, that is, the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty was too hard, and he insisted on not dying until now, and he also wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob and reap some benefits, and when Yue Shaoan and Dali were in full swing, they sent troops to attack Song Shicheng.
The espionage system of the Great Song Dynasty is much more perfect than that of Dali, although it is not as perfect as Yue Shao'an's Supervision Department, but it can also achieve the perfect implementation of the exclusive task, this time the Great Song Emperor wants to take advantage of the fire to rob, of course, he must understand the situation of the Song Shicheng, so that he knows himself and the enemy, so that he can not be defeated in a hundred battles, and those inner spies inquired about the old guy Wu Qimeng.
Previously, Wu Qimeng was in charge of food in Song Shicheng, so he naturally knew about Song Shicheng's grain reserves, and it was no problem to arrest him, so in the middle of the night, when Wu Qimeng was planning to make another younger brother for Wuhan Ran, he was suddenly pulled up from the bed, and wiped off his belly and lowered the neck of the beauty, and the frightened Wu Qimeng was paralyzed at that time, and urinated on the secret agent's pants, but the quality of this secret agent was excellent, and he ignored Wu Qimeng's old urine. But he threw him his clothes and let him put them on, and went away with him.
Wu Qimeng was already extremely dissatisfied with Yue Shao'an, as soon as he heard that these people were dealing with Yue Shao'an, he didn't need to ask, he immediately told everything he knew, and added fuel and vinegar to say that there was a severe shortage of food in Song Shicheng now, as long as the city was besieged in advance and reinforcements were not allowed to enter the city to send food, then Song Shicheng would be broken.
The general sent by the Song Emperor this time was a veteran who followed him to the south to conquer Song Shicheng, named Cai Yong, who was a little anxious for quick success, but he was brave in battle, and the emperor really did not have a useful general in his hands at the moment, so he had to send him out.
As soon as this old man heard Wu Qimeng's words, he immediately slapped the table, ordered the people, and came straight towards Song Shicheng, and stepped up his march, for fear of being driven to the front.
And is the news brought by Wu Qimeng really so accurate? This obviously has to draw a big question mark, Yue Shaoan is used to seeing the disadvantages of those officials who only hand over one person to be responsible for hoarding grain in the history books.
As early as the beginning of the establishment of the Song Division, he handled the military grain separately from the people's grain, and encouraged the wealthy merchants in the city to hoard grain, so at the beginning, Wu Qimeng managed only one of the three grain areas in the Song Division, and it was the smallest piece. After listening to his words, he can still please there, but unfortunately Cai Yong doesn't know the secret, he still thinks that Wu Qimeng used to be in charge of grain in Song Shicheng, and what he said must not be false.
Because Wu Qimeng was timid on the first, and he was very sincere in his speech, because Wu Qimeng himself didn't know the reason, so he naturally didn't think about deceiving people, and of course he couldn't see flaws on his face.
In this way, the Dali army and the Song army in advance would have staggered the route, and the Dali army would have arrived in Song Shicheng first, and the Dali army had to change the marching route under the delays and ambushes of the Song Shicheng four roads, so the two armies gradually pulled the originally staggered time together. met in Mao County, a hundred miles away from Song Shicheng, which caused a good show......